Elders and Staff

Elders

Ken Lippold

Full-time Elder

Ken was born and raised in the Chicago area. He studied at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College Graduate School. After working for First Baptist of Geneva in the Chicago suburbs for 8 years as the pastor for university students he and Emmy relocated to Oceanside, CA where he continued to pastor university students at New Song Community Church.

Ken came to Christ Church in September of 2013 to joint the staff team, and leads Connect Central on Wednesdays. We haven’t let him leave yet.

He enjoys food, reading and loves road cycling so much he rode all the way across the USA in 2003. He met his wife Emmy outside of a coffee shop and they still drink coffee together every day.

Maurice McCracken

Full-time Elder

Maurice has been in Liverpool for twelve years, and about seven years ago persuaded Anna to marry him and come and join him here. Maurice works for us as a full time Elder and leads Connect Central on Tuesdays.

They love bad pop music, reality TV and coffee shops! Maurice is originally from Belfast, and has three children, Kitty, Alfie and Martha.

Chris Gregory

Elder

Chris works as a hospital doctor in Wigan. He’s married to Helen and they have two children, Anna and Ben. They have been coming to Christ Church Liverpool since it first started in 2003 and Chris became an Elder in Feb 2009 and leads the North Connect Group.

David Wilkinson

Elder

David has been coming along to Christ Church since 2008 when he moved to Liverpool with his wife Angela. They have two daughters Rebekah and Hannah and together lead and host the East Connect group in their home. Over the years David has made good friends with the M62 as he makes the commute to Manchester each day to work as a paediatric surgeon – but loves returning home to Liverpool and his family both home and at church.

David grew up in a Christian family but it wasn’t really until he moved away from home to study in Sheffield in the late 1990’s that he began to really understand that being a Christian isn’t about following rules – what you do or don’t do. but instead is about the wonder of what God has done for us and how that then shapes the way we live in response to Him.

Having previously dreamt of a call up to the England cricket squad David has had to accept this probably isn’t going to happen. Now when he gets a spare moment he enjoys getting stuck into a good book or getting out and being reminded of the glory of creation from the top of a mountain.

Josh Probert

Elder

Born & bred in North Wales, Josh came to Christ Church as a Ministry Trainee back in 2007 and has remained and settled in Liverpool as his adopted home. Having qualified as a teacher in 2010, he has since left the teaching profession to move into ministry. He became an elder in 2014 and now he works part-time in international ministry for Christ Church and has a part-time training role with the North West Partnership. He is married and enjoys reading, sport, city breaks, gardening and box sets!

Pete Gower

Elder

Tom Askew

Elder

Tom grew up going to church, and would have called himself a Christian all his life, but thinks he only really started to understand and appreciate God’s grace in his late teens to early 20’s. He is still amazed that the eternally loving God welcomes us into fellowship with him.
He is married to Naomi and dad to Nathanael and Esther, and works as a GP on Wirral.
He has been an elder at Christ Church Liverpool since 2007, leads the South Connect Group, and has loved seeing God work in and our members.

Staff

Ken Lippold

Pastor

Ken was born and raised in the Chicago area. He studied at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College Graduate School. After working for First Baptist of Geneva in the Chicago suburbs for 8 years as the pastor for university students he and Emmy relocated to Oceanside, CA where he continued to pastor university students at New Song Community Church.

Ken came to Christ Church in September of 2013 to joint the staff team, and leads Connect Central on Wednesdays. We haven’t let him leave yet.

He enjoys food, reading and loves road cycling so much he rode all the way across the USA in 2003. He met his wife Emmy outside of a coffee shop and they still drink coffee together every day.

Maurice McCracken

Pastor

Maurice has been in Liverpool for twelve years, and about seven years ago persuaded Anna to marry him and come and join him here. Maurice works for us as a full time Elder and leads Connect Central on Tuesdays.

They love bad pop music, reality TV and coffee shops! Maurice is originally from Belfast, and has three children, Kitty, Alfie and Martha.

Lindsay Ferguson

Minister for Discipleship & Training

Lindsay came from Scotland to Liverpool initially to work as a geologist at Liverpool University. She greatly respected the genuine care of people in church and kept in touch after moving to Australia to work for the minerals industry. After enjoying helping with Samaritans Purse and auditing a Bible college course in her spare time, she moved full time into study for a ministry degree. Thereafter she joined the staff at Perth Bible College.

Lindsay returned to the UK for family reasons in 2010 and has since spent time both in geology and ministry, as well as investing in family and relationships. Her interests include walking, swimming, good films, being outdoors, travel, kayaking and spending time with friends and family.

Jack Popplewell

Project Manager

Jack is originally from Leeds and moved to Liverpool to study Business at university, where he met and married Sarah.

After university he worked in banking and chemical distribution, before deciding to take a sabbatical and spend 6 months in India with Sarah working with victims of human trafficking.

Now he works at Christ Church as our Project Manager.

Naomi Woof

Project Manager

Naomi grew up in a small village in Cumbria, before moving to Ormskirk to study primary teaching at Edge Hill University in September 2012. Since graduating Naomi has spent time teaching across schools in Merseyside and working at Christ Church.

Naomi now co-leads the student ministry at Christ Church Liverpool and studies theology part time. Naomi loves playing football, guitar and watching films.

Sarah Oliver

Project Manager

Sarah moved to Liverpool to study nursing at the University of Liverpool, and loved it so much she stayed!

Sarah volunteers 2 days a week with Christ Church to work with the young people, in the ministry YConnect, and in her spare time works as a nurse at the Royal Liverpool Hospital!

Tommy Welty

Project Manager

Tommy Welty is living in Liverpool with his family with the AT3 programme. He is working on the Student Team, studying Theology, meeting up to disciple others in the church and serving the church on the music team.

Tommy is enjoying living in the city centre and exploring the city with his family.

Gaynor Evans

Church Administrator

Gaynor is almost local to Liverpool, coming from Neston on the Wirral. After training to be a teacher in Lancaster, she moved back to Liverpool. She has two children, Rosie and Tom.

When Gaynor's not working in the CCL office, she's working part-time for Charles Thompson's Mission on the Wirral. She loves baking, trying out new recipes, and hanging out with friends.

Anna Stilton

Ministry Trainee

After completing a Geography degree, Anna Stilton started working as a Ministry Trainee with Christ Church Liverpool.

Anna works with Students, studies Theology on the North West Partnership course and serves the church in the Kids work as 'Zoe the Zookeeper'.

Hannah Northover

Ministry Trainee

Hannah is working for Christ Church Liverpool as a part time Ministry Trainee. When she’s not in the CCL office, she’s teaching ESOL, creating designs for her Lettering Etsy shop, or drinking coffee and planning adventures with her husband Joe.